Talking-machine.



No. 798,140. PATENTED JUNE 27, 1905.

G. A. MANWARING.

TALKING MACHINE.

AAAAAAAAAA N FILED JAH.12.1904.

UNITED STATES Patented June 190 5.

PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE ABBOTT MANIVARING, OF BAYONNE, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO AMERICANGRAPHOPHONE COMPANY, OF WASHINGTON, DIS- TRIOT OF COLUMBIA, ACORPORATION OF \VEST VIRGINIA.

TALKING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 793,140, dated June 27,1905.

Application filed January 12, 1904:. Serial No. 188,796.

1'0 (0M w/tom it may concern:

erally less time. By my invention 1. am enabled in aconvenientmanner tomake records practically continuous through hours.

The invention consists in providing a magazine carrying therecord-receiving material, successive portions of which are presented tothe action of the recorder intermittently as each previous portion hasbeen tilled with a record. The most convenient form consists of arecord-receiving strip of flexible material wound upon a drum or roller,and preferably this drum is carried by a revolving support that passesunder the recorder. The support in question may be either cylindrical orof other shape; but for clearness I willdescribe a flat turn-table.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of one form of my invention.Fig. 2 is a plan of the same, the sound-box being removed. Fig. 3 is asectional view of the roller containing a strip of the record-receivingmaterial; and Fig. a is a portion of such strip, on a reduced scale,showing a succession of spiral records.

A is a motor of any convenient form, such as now used for diskgraphophones.

B is the vertical shaft rotated by the motor, and O is a turn-tablecarried thereby and shown in Fig. 2 as rectangular. This turntable isrotated in operative relation with any suitable sound box D that is fedradially across the table in any well-known manner.

E represents a drum, carried by depending ,Heretofore, in practice atleast, this has been limited to sounds that would occupy but about tiveminutes or gen- 1 brackets a beneath one edge of the turntable C, and Fis a similar drum supported in the same manner beneath the opposite edgeof the table. These drums may be provided with a pawl and ratchet toprevent their traveling backward. One of the drums, as F, is providedwith a handle F. rapped on the drum E is a roll of flexible recordingmaterial G, which is carried across the upper surface of the table O andconnected to the drum F.

\Vhen the machine is operated, the turntable revolves, carrying with itthe magazine E and the exposed portion of the recording material Or; thesound-box is gradually fed (radially) across the material Gr, preferablyby means of a thread revolving shaft N and the half-nut .P, and producesa sound-record thereon. "hen the recording-tool has reached its limit ofeffective movement inward to the center of the table C, it is liftedupward to disengage from the recording material (1 and (by means of thehandle F" or otherwise) the record already made is rolled around thedrum F, and the succeeding portion of the recording material (i isexposed upon the top of the turn-table, whereupon the sound-box and itsstylus are moved back to the outer edge of the table and a second spiralrecord is commenced. This procedure may be carried on as long as desiredor until the entire roll of flexible recording material G has beenexhausted.

It will sometimes happen from one cause or another that therccording-surface (i will not lie perfectly flat or smooth upon theturn-table C. I may obviate this by the following device: M M representsa series of orifices in the upper face of the turn-table O, uniting witha common duct Q, which in turn is connected with some device (a fan orthe like) for securing a partial vacuum. The result is a suction exertedat these orilices M M which holds the exposed portion of the flexiblerecording material G flat and smooth upon the turn-table.

In practice a practicallycontinuous dictation may be recorded insuccessive spirals upon a strip of flexible recording material which maybe as long as convenient. Again, when a particular record has beencompleted the portion of the strip containing it may be torn off andapplied to a reproducing-machine or filed away for future reference. Inreproducing the strip is arranged on a similar machine, care being takento center each spiral upon the turn-table and a reproducing sound-boxbeing used in place of a recording device.

Modifications of my invention will at once suggest themselves, and partsof the invention may be used to the exclusion of other parts without inany way departing from the spirit of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, I claim 1. The combination of arevolving support in operative relation with a recording or reproducingdevice, .a magazine traveling therewith and carrying a flexiblerecording material continuous portions of which are successively andintermittently exposed upon said table to the action of said recordingor reproducing device.

2. The combination of a revolving support in operative relation With arecording or reproducing device, a magazine traveling therewith carryinga flexible recording material continuous portions of which aresuccessively and intermittently exposed upon said su pport to the actionof said recording or reproducing device, and suitable means for holdingsaid flexible recordingmaterial smoothly upon said support.

3. The combination of a revolving support, a magazine traveling in fixedrelation thereto, a recording material carried by said magazine andhaving a portion thereof extending over said support, and means forsuccessively presenting at intervals different continuous portions ofsaid material upon said support.

4. The combination of a revolving support in operative relation with arecording or reproducing device, and a magazine traveling therewithcarrying a continuous sound-recording material.

5. A turn-table carrying two oppositelydisposed rollers for presentingsuccessive portions of a continuous sound-recording material.

6. A turn-table carrying two oppositelydisposed rollers for presentingsuccessive portions of a continuous sound-recording material and meansfor intermittently substituting such successive portions.

7. The combination of a revolving support inoperative relation with arecording or reproducing device, a magazine traveling therewith andcarrying a flexible recording material in the form of a strip, and meansfor intermittently presentingsuccessive continuous portions of saidstrip to the action of the recording or reproducing device, therevolution of said support serving to present the exposed surface ofsaid recording material to the usual action of said device.

8. The combination of a revolving support in operative relation with arecording or reproducing device, .a magazine traveling therewith andcarryinga sound-reco rding material in the form of a continuous striprolled up within said magazine, and means for intermittently presentingsuccessive portions of said strip.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE ABBOTT MANWARING;

itnesses:

G. A. L. MAssin, R. L. SCOTT.

